One of our moderators, Christopher Santaniello, known to us best by his handle Diamhea, has died. He was 31.

Diamhea had a stellar work ethic here. Some of you might know him best as a point of contact when handling reports, or in providing feedback on reviews, or even just for his love of Overkill and bodybuilding. Whether you got along with him or not, he was truly a facet here, and his absence is noticed. He was devoted to Metal Archives, and took pride in helping to maintain its integrity. I can't think of a better way to honour him, than to recognize how much we valued him as our friend and as a member of our team.

R.I.P. We'll miss you, man.

- The whole MA team

Our sincere and heartfelt condolences to his family.

Been spinning Overkill all day in his memory. Farewell, friend, we will miss you.

This was really shitty news to see when I got off work. I'm gonna do what I can to keep up his pace in the review queue from now on (and maybe get around to giving Overkill a positive review finally in his honor).

One of the worst things to wake up to. Knew Dia's musical work waaaaay before on Myspace before I even met him here. I still have some of the old Morannon demos from way back. Gonna go listen to those today.

Such horrible news this is. I remember spending hours and hours talking to you Diamhea on the old IRC chatroom about random stuff into the wee hours of the morning, and we'd always get along really well. I'd definitely have considered you my closest chat buddy on the old IRC. Fanboying about Summoning, and joking at each other about who has more Obituary vs Overkill last.fm plays. Or that time you stood up for me and had my back on the forums, when I wrote that meanie Carcass review years ago. So very sad right now.

I was hoping to get to meet Diamhea some day, at MDF or some other fest. It won't happen. Just goes to show that life is short and you need to take advantage of the opportunities you do have when you have them.

RIP buddy, you'll be greatly missed. See you in Valhalla.

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I don't think I've ever conversed with someone that shared my love for Overkill as much as him. I've had many an encounter with him on the forums, and a few on Facebook, as well. Christopher "Diamhea" Santaniello will be greatly missed. R.I.P

I don't know what to say, I'm stunned. He was I think the first person on this site to reach out to me and give me pointers on my reviews and he introduced me to so many awesome bands. This place won't be the same without him, for sure.

Oh my god that's horrible. I heard the news from Morrigan's post on the Free-For-All Thread and I instantly stopped breathing for a while, then I thought it was just his departure. I instantly stopped the music I was listening to in order to read the post here.

31 is so fucking young. Like more than half of your life got suddenly wasted. That's dreadful. Never talked to him directly, he was just the one to accept (and then refuse) all my reviews but I really wished I could one day. He seemed to be really a nice person.

Absolutely devastating news. He was always so good with the reviews and I'm sure he did so much more behind the scenes, as well. A worthy contributor to the Archives and his absence is going to be felt for a long time.

To read how much he’s beloved here as well as for his music and wherever he’s known prior to and outside of MA is bittersweet, but also not suprising. Just a stand up guy who anyone could jump right into a thread and converse with, always had entertaining reviews, and was more than capable of doing what had to be done as a mod if necessary, too. Kinda envious I didn’t have quite the same connection a lot of you did, honestly. Definitely one of many here it would’ve been fun to shoot the shit with if the opportunity permitted. Here’s hoping he passed quickly with no suffering - he earned at least that much.